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Webinar | Workshop on Gender Economics

We are delighted to announce the first online workshop organised as part of the Forum for Research on Gender Economics (FROGEE) under the FREE Network umbrella in collaboration with Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). The workshop will bring together researchers and experts working in the area of gender economics on issues related to gender inequality.

The FREE Network first online workshop is organized as part of the Forum for Research on Gender Economics (FROGEE) supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The workshop will combine seminar presentations of academic papers focused on issues related to gender inequality and online lectures on economics of discrimination given by prof. Daniel Hamermesh (Barnard College and IZA). The mornings will feature seminar presentations, while in the afternoon prof. Hamermesh will deliver lectures on “Unusual Aspects of the Economics of Discrimination”.

The reading list for the FROGEE lectures can be downloaded hereIf you wish to receive the set of papers from the FROGEE lectures reading list, please send an e-mail to dominick.nilsson@hhs.se.

Speakers

Seminar Papers, day 1:

  • Lena Janys (University of Bonn, HCM and IZA, Germany)
  • David Koll (EUI Florence, Italy)
  • Nicolas Grau (Universidad de Chile)

Discussants:

  • Jesper Roine (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Sweden)
  • Michal Myck (CenEA, Poland)
  • Lev Lvovskiy (BEROC, Belarus)

FROGEE lecture part 1:

  • Daniel Hamermesh (Barnard College and IZA, USA)

Seminar Papers, day 2:

  • Michael Oberfichtner (IAB Nuremberg, Germany)
  • Marko Ledić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Discussants:

  • Pamela Campa (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Sweden)
  • Iga Magda (IBS, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)

FROGEE lecture part 2:

  • Daniel Hamermesh (Barnard College and IZA, USA)

Moderator

Michal Myck ( CenEA, Poland)

HOW TO REGISTER

Please register HERE or in the Eventbrite webpage or application. Please register by midday 26 June (CET). A link to the webinar will be sent to you 4-5 hours ahead of the start of the webinar. We look forward to connecting with you for the webinar!

 

ABOUT Forum for Research on Gender Economics (FROGEE)

The aim of the FROGEE project is to contribute to the discussion on gender inequality, with a specific focus on the region of Central and Eastern Europe. By highlighting different dimensions of gender inequality and its consequences for socio-economic development, FROGEE aims at bringing the issue of gender equality to the focus of both general public and policy makers. The project is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

 

WEBINAR PROGRAM